Emma’s Public Lecture

 

Ciaran’s Blindman’s Bluff Childhood Game

 

Notes from Monday night’s reading

Monday night’s reading was:

STeM Working Paper NEW MEDIA: NEW PLEASURES

available at /Projects and Activities/

Cultural studies – games as text as opposed as possible worlds

Fiske
Barthes
- jouissance
- plaisir

playing with a text
texte ecrit
texte avoir
text lu

Political economy – power structures

Salen/Zimmerman
Pleasure in tension between rules & play
Affirmation and resistance
Delayed gratification

Types of pleasure
Sensation
Fantasy
Narrative
Challenge
Fellowship
Discovery
Expression
Submission

Evolution of pleasure of time
Entrainment engines
Transformative play

WALTER BENJAMIN
The work of art in the age of mechanical representation

Games kinaesthetia

Identification

Game concepts
- control
- immersion |(separateness of play)
- performance (identity)
- intertextuality
- narrative

repetition is important

notion of flow

 

tuesday’s workshop presentation

 

The Mirror (tuesdays exercise by aakoo)